[Talk-us] One of the strangest TIGER screwups I've seen

[Richard Welty]

On 10/23/11 2:45 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
> On 10/23/2011 2:34 PM, Richard Welty wrote:
>> On 10/23/11 2:07 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
>>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/17161384/history
>>> "Alte Eisenbahn" is German for "old railway", which is a correct
>>> description of the way.
>> why do you think it's a screwup? do you have local knowledge of the
>> situation.
>
> For one, it's tiger:cfcc=C30 ("Other ground transportation that is not 
> a pipeline or a power transmission line") whereas an abandoned railway 
> is B15. Why do you think it's not a screwup? Do you have local knowledge?
no i don't -- but i'm not presumptuous enough to make assumptions.
from Mike's comment, the name appears to likely be correct local usage.
the area might have had a high concentration of german settlers some
time in the past, and thus have come by that designation fairly naturally.

tiger:cfcc is frequently wrong. it doesn't follow that other tiger
tags like the name are wrong.

richard